Iraq gunmen kill 3, say police

GUNMEN have killed three policemen and a prison official in attacks in Baghdad, Iraqi authorities say. The first attack took place early on Saturday morning when gunmen opened fire on a police patrol in the Shi'ite Muslim neighbourhood of al-Shaab,...

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Boys hitting puberty earlier

WHEN it comes to the birds and the bees, some parents may want to have that talk with their boys a little sooner than they expected. Researchers have found signs of puberty in American boys up to two years earlier than previously reported - age...

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India's Kingfisher licence suspended

THE flying licence of India's Kingfisher Airlines has reportedly been suspended after the debt-laden carrier failed to satisfy concerns about its operations. The licence of the airline has been "suspended until further orders", the Press Trust...

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Kuwaiti elections announced

KUWAIT'S ruler has set parliamentary elections for December 1 after months of a deepening political crisis that has pitted the pro-Western ruling family against opposition forces led by Islamists. It will be the second time an election for the...

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Sony to close factory, cut workforce

SONY says it plans to close a factory in central Japan, tweaking its restructuring plan by cutting 2000 jobs from its workforce in moves expected to save it $US385 million ($A373.19 million). The company's Minokamo factory, in Gifu prefecture,...

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Doctors say shot Pakistani girl improving

DOCTORS treating 15-year-old Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousufzai said that she is able to stand with help and to write, though she still shows signs of infection. The girl is "well enough that she's agreed that she's happy, in fact keen,...

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Inquiry into BBC entertainer grows

BRITISH police say a highly publicised inquiry into a BBC entertainer believed to have molested dozens of girls has widened to include more than 200 potential victims. The Metropolitan Police says it is pursuing over 400 separate lines of inquiry...

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Oldfield cops six-month jail sentence

AUSTRALIAN boat race protester Trenton Oldfield has been hit with a six-month jail sentence for causing a public nuisance at this year's Oxford-Cambridge rowing race. The anti-elitism campaigner delayed the annual race in London by 25 minutes...

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Russian govt approves public smoking ban

RUSSIA'S government has approved a bill that would ban smoking in public and tobacco ads. The government on Thursday approved a landmark deal that would crack down on smoking in a country where 44 million people, or 40 per cent of adults, light...

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Rudd is right about vitriol: Carr

FOREIGN Minister Bob Carr agrees vitriol in federal politics has to stop and that all sides have to take responsibility. But he says the opposition started it. Senator Carr says he agrees with former prime minister Kevin Rudd that Australians...

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Spanish bad bank loans 'hit record'

BAD loans at Spanish banks, a major source of concern to global financial markets, have surged to a new record high in August, data released by the Bank of Spain shows. The value of loans at risk of not being repaid climbed to 178.6 billion...

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Pakistan held, freed millitant before girl's attack

ONE of the two Taliban militants suspected of attacking 14-year-old girl activist Malala Yousufzai was detained by the Pakistani military in 2009 but subsequently released, intelligence officials said. Malala was shot and critically wounded...

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Ex-king's body returns to Cambodia

TENS of thousands of mourners have lined the streets of the Cambodian capital on Wednesday to pay their last respects to revered former king Norodom Sihanouk. The body of the mercurial ex-monarch, who steered his country through turbulent decades...

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Australian man murdered in Philippines

AN 81-year-old Australian renown for his winning boat designs in the world-famous Sydney to Hobart yacht race has been murdered at his mountain home in the Philippines, police said Wednesday. A Filipino employee discovered Joseph Adams' body...

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US embassy in Stockholm evacuated

The US embassy in Stockholm has been evacuated over a possible security incident, a spokesman for the mission said, while police said a suspect envelope had sparked the scare. "We've evacuated the embassy while we are investigating a possible...

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Five dead in arson-homicide at bar

FIREFIGTHERS responding to bar fire in Denver have discovered five people dead inside. Investigators are calling the blaze an arson-homicide. Denver Police Chief Robert White says the fire at Fero's Bar & Grill in east Denver was reported...

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Coca-Cola's Q3 profit up three per cent

COCA-COLA'S net income rose three per cent in the third quarter, as the world's biggest beverage maker sold more of it drinks around the globe and raised prices. The Atlanta-based company, which makes Sprite, Dasani water and Powerade, says...

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Roma to host NBN satellite station

ROMA in southwest Queensland will be the state's host of a national broadband network (NBN) satellite ground station, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy says. "This ground station will bring jobs to Roma and act as an essential satellite...

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War crimes fugitive Hadzic in court

CROATIAN Serb former rebel leader Goran Hadzic has gone on trial at the Yugoslav war crimes court in The Hague, the last defendant to be prosecuted for crimes during the brutal Balkan wars. "This is the last opening statement of the last trial...

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Teenager threatened in home invasion

A TEENAGER was threatened by three men holding a gun and knives when they broke into her western Sydney home. The 19-year-old woman was home alone when she awoke to find three men in her bedroom at 12.15pm (AEDT) on Tuesday. She was threatened...

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PM not briefed on Assange since May

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has not had a formal briefing on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for more than four months, a Senate committee has heard. Mr Assange took refuge in Ecuador's London embassy in June in a bid to avoid extradition...

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Militants attack Pakistani police station

A PAKISTANI official says more than 100 militants have attacked a police station in the northwest, killing six policemen. Two of the killed policemen were beheaded. Police officer Ishrat Yar said the attack near the main northwest city of Peshawar...

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PM won't comment on Thomson charges

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard says she will not comment on the charges laid against independent MP Craig Thomson over the alleged misuse of union funds. Fair Work Australia (FWA) on Monday commenced civil proceedings in the Federal Court against...

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US duo win Nobel economics prize

US scholars Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley have won the Nobel economics prize for research on how to match different agents as well as possible, the Nobel jury says. The two were honoured for "the theory of stable allocations and the practice...

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Kafka scripts to be moved to Israel

A TEL Aviv court has ruled that a collection of manuscripts written by Franz Kafka and Max Brod must be transferred to the Israeli National Library in Jerusalem. The ruling brings an end to a heated, protracted court case. Tel Aviv sisters...

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'Prehistoric man ate pandas'

A CHINESE scientist says that humans used to eat pandas. In a newspaper interview, Wei Guangbiao says prehistoric man ate the bears in what is now part of the city of Chongqing in southwest China. Mr Wei, the head of the Institute of Three...

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Mum caught drink driving with child in car

A WOMAN was more than four times over the legal limit when she drove the wrong way through a fast food restaurant drive-in with her seven-year-old son in the front seat. Police had received reports of the woman's erratic driving in Greensborough,...

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Philippine rebel chief to sign peace deal

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